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Hey Folks,
Thought I'd share this recent find, which is not in my normal wheelhouse, but certainly in my favorite pieces I have come across. Sadly it will be sold, not only as it doesn't really fit anywhere in my collection but because I promised myself when I got it that was a requirement to purchase.
Very interesting technique of gold, platinum and silver infused glass, it is not something I am familiar with.... Kyohei Fujita was named a national living treasure in 1997, and a very similar but much taller box to this is featured at the MET( ill link below).
Just thought we rarely have Japanese glass on here so might be a neat change of pace.
Cheers,
Jeremy
interesting note the signature is in light pencil( or very lightly engraved) on the bottom so if you come across one of these, be careful to not rub the mark. I have placed a sheet of mylar over the mark on this one.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/494071
Also a decent write up on him, I certainly cannot do better.
https://soyunk.com/designers/kyohei-fujita/
Hi Jeremy,
Not in my wheelhouse either, but a lovely piece! Hope you see a nice profit.
take it with a grain of salt
It's a beautiful piece.
Are you selling this on ebay or other?
Mark
Thanks Todd, me too.haha. I think I'll be alright. but definitely sad to see it go.
Jeremy
Thanks Mark,
I will end up listing it on my Chairish store, I don't sell on ebay anymore. There is actually someone on there who has a few of these and is asking quite a bit, a bit absurd I think, to each their own. I hope its not bad form to price mine way under theirs... lol.
Ill post a link to it once its up but right now I am in the process of listing about two hundred pieces, and changing over from a consignment/ partnership, so the shop is a bit bare.
Cheers,
Jeremy
OK when you get it listed please send me a link.
Mark
I am a little torn as the market is all over the place. This is one of the smaller ones, basically a 4 inch cube. I asked one dealer they thought $3000-5000... But I think probably ask $3500... I dunno, I think the red and white ones are kind of his classic look, I think with black included it brings a premium, and then obviously the odd shapes are more. There was a stunning green and blue round one that I would totally kill to have.
You sir, have good taste. Not my area at all, but I like it.
Thank you William,
Very kind of you to say.
I really like it but am well outside my comfort zone in a way. This was part of a deal getting some major pieces, Gerhard Richter, Josef Hoffmann and quite a bit more..... maybe 20 pieces well outside my normal range. The Hoffmann candlesticks I love, stylistically or aesthetically right up my alley, the other pieces many of them fit from aesthetic point of view but not so much by category Prior to selling online only I could play with the aesthetics of things, now I feel like I am leaning into it a bit more on Chairish, but still struggle maintaining a fluid overall aesthetic on my "shop". I have, for the last year been building my own site to focus on certain pieces, kind of a curated selection, ranging from 17th century paintings to modern art pottery to Ming export wares, just a smattering of various things I like..... still a ways away, since for now I need normal inventory to move, but soon, real soon...
Cheers,
Jeremy
just a tease... I love these things...
Josef Hoffmann / Wiener Werkstatte, Kerzenleuchter, C.1923
I know what you mean. After I retired, I thought, “That’s it.” I was mainly finished with collecting. Instead, I eventually went in some different directions. Enjoying Chinese Export Ware now. Salt cellars and cream jugs. Who knew?
Those candle sticks are quite different.
Am I mistaken or is that a Vernet? holy smokes!
I love the variety, but also that you seem to go for the classics.... truly love it.
I may have a mild obsession with period portraits so I have trouble parting with them...
Also Early Southern furniture is a focus, just got in a nice Valley of Virginia federal Card table, but the real gem and the one I am keeping is the Eastern North Carolina Carolina walnut and yellow pine gateleg, super plain but just my speed.
I shudder to think what it would be like to have high ceilings and big rooms like yours , I fear it would be an attempt at a Villier's type of collection, though not with the millions to spend.... Here's a snapshot of my ever rotating, but mostly permanent cabinet... crammed in my tiny room... lol
Jeremy
I went a little crazy with the pictures. Sharp eye! Yes, that is most likely a Horace Vernet full length, portrait of Contra-Amiral Charles Rene Magon. I bought it about 25 years ago at Sothebys in New York. It had popped up in Paris the year before at Drouot hotel via Reunier & Bailey-Pommery in 1998. Absolutely no provenance and a probable later signature. Attached below is the later smaller portrait located at Versailles by Vernet’s nephew, Pichat Olivier done in 1846.
Someday, I will track down the Vernet Catalogue Raisonne located in Chicago written by C. Renaudeau and look up the portrait reference on pp. 254-255, no. 208, ill. p. 694.
That is very cool, a few years ago I was researching a half length for a customer of a french officer and that painting comes up when looking at Vernet. Wild you got it. It is very grand.
Not sure if it is helpful, the only painting of an admiral by Horace Vernet in the Getty Provenance Index happens to be a full length portrait, of an unknown admiral sold in 1870 at Hotel Drouot.
Heres a screenshot.
just adding that in 1875 a franc was about $12.90 Usd today so they paid a little more than 25000 back then.
That’s so funny. About 6 years ago, I came across a screen shot of my Admiral portrait on the internet which inspired me to do further research. I then found the later Olivier copy at Versailles and also found references regarding the 2000 Renaudeau catalogue raisonne. As far as I know, the only copy in the US is at a research library in Chicago. Whoever purchased the painting in Paris, tried to flip it the next year at Sotheby’s in New York. Unfortunately for them they didn’t do the research and some bad talk killed the sale in 1999. They panicked and directed Sotheby’s to dump the painting on line (and into my lap).
You have really got me on a roll now and I want to show you my best American portrait which I got several years ago at Skinners in Boston.
Care to quess the artist?
I like that one too, wow. Favorite museum here is the National portrait gallery, halls and halls of these, but yours would definitely be in the main rooms, really well painted. I will guess Rembrandt Peale or Gilbert Stuart, not dreamy enough to be Thomas Sully.... and too good for everyone else...
Just checked the archive for Horace Vernet but no digital scan of the 1870 sale or anything further. Ill let you know if I find anything.This is what I do for fun to take my mind off my own research projects.
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